Table 4.
Summary of medical records abstracted for the cancer treatment discontinuation study by age, race, and cancer care facility
| Patient characteristics | All cases (N = 3996) | Breast cancer (N = 1096) | Prostate cancer (N = 1103) | Lung cancer (N = 1259) | Colorectal cancer (N = 565) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||
| Age | |||||||||
| <65 | 1,780 (44.5%) | 643 | 60.1 | 357 | 32.4 | 510 | 40.5 | 270 | 47.8 |
| ≥65 | 2,216 (55.5%) | 426 | 39.9 | 746 | 67.6 | 749 | 59.5 | 295 | 52.2 |
| Race | |||||||||
| White | 2,656 (66.5%) | 738 | 69.0 | 617 | 55.9 | 926 | 73.6 | 375 | 66.4 |
| Black | 1,319 (33.0%) | 322 | 30.1 | 478 | 43.3 | 329 | 26.1 | 190 | 33.6 |
| Other/Unknowna | 21 (0.5%) | 9 | 0.8 | 8 | 0.7 | 4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Facility | |||||||||
| Phoebe cancer center | 1,582 (39.6%) | 433 | 40.5 | 436 | 39.5 | 526 | 41.8 | 187 | 33.1 |
| Singletary oncology center | 746 (18.7%) | 165 | 15.4 | 251 | 22.8 | 239 | 19.0 | 91 | 16.1 |
| Pearlman cancer center | 724 (18.1%) | 197 | 18.4 | 170 | 15.4 | 268 | 21.3 | 89 | 15.8 |
| Tift regional oncology center | 436 (10.9%) | 126 | 11.8 | 119 | 10.8 | 110 | 8.7 | 81 | 14.3 |
| All other SWGA facilities | 508 (12.7%) | 148 | 13.8 | 127 | 11.5 | 116 | 9.2 | 117 | 20.7 |
a
Includes Asians/Pacific Islanders and Hispanics, which are not reported due to small numbers